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A group of Aboriginal people from local communities has recorded significant health and fitness gains from a program that saw them become the first Northern Rivers team to participate in the annual, statewide ‘Team NSW Knockout Health Challenge’.

In addition, they came in the top fifteen for NSW, a remarkable performance according to Northern NSW Local Health District’s Aboriginal Chronic Care Officer, Anthony Franks.

Lismore Regional Gallery is presenting an exhibition and community engagement project with acclaimed Australian artist, Hiromi Tango. Tango is a sculptural installation and performance artist who uses textiles to weave together tactile and immersive environments by hand. For Art Magic: Remnant, her project and exhibition at Lismore Regional Gallery (exhibition 12 September to 26 October 2015), Tango has been working with local community members to make a Rainbow Forest, responding to the flora, fauna and landscape of the Lismore region.

Tango has used the concept of the regeneration of the rainforest as a metaphor for emotional healing. She has a strong belief in the therapeutic qualities of her process and has developed “Art Magic recipes” to share the delight of making. Tango has worked extensively with a variety of community groups including local artists, the elderly, anxiety sufferers, children and young people, students, people living with a disability and culturally diverse community members.

The director of the University Centre for Rural Health (UCRH), Professor Lesley Barclay AM, has won an accolade from the federal government for leading one of Australia’s top-ten research projects over the past year.

The Ten of the Best Research Projects 2014 were selected for their innovativeness and potential to make a difference to the lives of Australians and people worldwide.

While regarded as an essential means of communication between hospitals and GPs to facilitate optimal care of patients returning to the community, electronic hospital discharge letters, or eDLs, are insufficiently understood by doctors, and this is putting patient wellbeing at risk.

This is the key result of a major survey of GPs in Sydney’s Nepean Blue Mountains area, and the findings are likely to apply elsewhere.

The 2012 survey, details of which were published recently in the Medical Journal of Australia was based on an audit of 321 identified abbreviations used at Nepean Hospital.

Lismore City Council recently submitted an application to the National Stronger Regions Fund to relocate Lismore Regional Gallery, currently in Molesworth Street, to the ‘Lismore Quadrangle’, located on the old Lismore High School site, in the Keen Street block.

The project will include the redevelopment of the existing C-Block building to contain Lismore Regional Gallery, Arts Northern Rivers (currently located in Alstonville) and the Co-op Bookshop (currently located in Woodlark St). The grounds between C-Block, Northern Rivers Conservatorium and the Lismore branch of the Richmond Tweed Regional Library, will be landscaped to connect all these organisations to create the ‘Quadrangle’.